Madeleine Albright Quotes

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

There are worse things than war.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

It's an important fact of life, war.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

War is too strange to process alone.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War dehumanizes everyone.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.